vatic adj : resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatical]

English

Etymology

From vates ‘seer, poet’.

Pronunciation

/'vætɪk/

• Rhymes: -ætɪk

Adjective

1. Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
   • 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:

     The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 129:

     “Inordinate attention from the middle latitudes,” proclaimed Miles, with a sort of vatic swoon in his voice.